Homel: Police Detain Youth Activist Andrei Tsianiuta
10.08.2007.
Tags: Young Front, freedom of expression, political persecution, detentions.
On 9 August in the center of Homel, in Paleskaya Street, persons in mufti detained a regional leader of Young Front Andrei Tsianiuta. Later the activist found that these persons were policemen. They drew him to Chyhunachny borough police department of Homel ‘for a talk’. There they searched his belongings, found several independent media outlets (including the officially registered Nasha Niva), composed a confiscation report and a report about illegal distribution of the editions. During the confiscation they violated the process norms. Soon the activist was released.
See also
04.12.2008 Barysau: opposition activist is tried in absentia
04.12.2008 Navapolatsk:: opposition activists unlawfully kept at sobering station all night
03.12.2008 Pickets near monuments to Lenin are banned
03.12.2008 Polatsk: police detain participants of action in support of political prisoner Barazenka
03.12.2008 Democratic activist Ihar Salavei is… wanted
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